Martha Montelongo along with Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal and John Seiler of CalWatchDog.com. Steven Greenhut, the Editor in Chief at CalWatchDog, may be joining us to discuss his latest posted commentary at CalWatchDog, addressing Gov. Brown’s open letter to the CA Voters issued on Monday, Dec 5th, what Brown says and Steve’s interpretation of what it says and means to all of us. (Steve is a maybe…but if he doesn’t make it we’ll generate him so you get his message!)

Oscar Cruz of Families in Schools joins us on the working partnership coalition of parents, teachers and community members working together to transform our public schools such that children learn and excel to their greatest potential–and that means great achievement and no excuses.

Larry Sand is our guest and we discuss The Stull Act and Jane Does v. Deasy et al or intimidated parents who fear reprisal for suing for transparency, integrity, accountability and results v. the public education cartel of LAUSD and its two big employee unions, United Teachers of L.A. and the Associated Administrators of L.A. and his article published today at Union Watch–A Project of the CA Public Policy Center, called California’s Looming Fiscal Disaster: Sunlight and an Informed Public are the Best Disinfectants

Tonight on Gadfly Radio w/ Martha & CalWatchDog’s John Seiler, and Special Guest Former CA Senator Gloria Romero on “You Have Choice!”

State Senator and Former State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, is the Director of California’s chapter of Democrats for Education Reform. We talk with Romero about the initiative called You Have Choice! What is it? Who is behind it? Who should know about it? Why do we need this program? What’s at stake? What is possible?

John Seiler, Special Guest Marcia Friz of Fix Pensions First. Ben Boychuk of CA City Journal is out ill. It’s election night and we’re about to get a good handle on the challenges at hand for reformers who want to get a handle on the public reformers who want to get a handle on the public employee pension crisis eating away at California’s public infrastructure.

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The status quo of education in the U.S. is destructive to our Nation, and to ignore this truth is to be numb, unconscious or in denial of reality.

"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament."--A Nation At Risk - April 1983

Drug War Clock for Current Year

Police arrested an estimated 858,408 persons for cannabis violations in 2009. Of those charged with cannabis violations, approximately 89 percent were charged with possession only.
Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation Your tax dollars at work--but for whom?

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